Correct HTML

[Praetor]

Correct HTML

The three major search engines within their webmaster guidelines stress the importance of correct html. A test of the top four listed sites in each engine produced the following results.

Google

17 warnings
1 warning
7 warnings
1 warning

Yahoo

12 warnings
0 warnings
0 warnings
1 warning

MSN

7 warnings
40 warnings 6 errors
0 warnings
1 warning

Search term: correct html

HTML Tidy was used to check the correctness of each search result. The settings for Tidy were:

Input: Default
Output: Default
Encoding: Default
DocType: Auto
Switches: None Activated

This was a very generic and very limited test. It appears that the html used is basically correct; although, many warnings were prevalent. Only one result contained html errors.

In fairness to the search engines, they stress correct html; not, perfect html. I will leave you, the reader to draw your own conclusions.

Lou Smith aka Praetor
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[gaz545]

what the hecky peck? :S

[Johan007]

Originally Posted by Praetor

The three major search engines within their webmaster guidelines stress the

Please quote us the text.

[cashgators]

Please offer a little insight on exactly what you're saying..

Correct HTML or Correct Spelling? I've seen a ton of websites with some nasty coding but it didn't really seem to affect their SE results at all.

[Jobs for 14]

I dont think it's useful, backlink is king!

[phoenix06007]

i don,t think that a clean code will change the SE result of any webpage.

[rginfotech]

Hi,

Check your validation error with http://validator.w3.org/ , you find the true results

[tom.schavo]

Even i believe this really doesnt matter.

[kristeejo]

cashgators - you responded to a thread that was over two years old. I WILL kill you with my bare hands. Try me.

[tom.schavo]

That means, sometimes with wrong code too you may get good rank on SE?